Mikaela

Mikaela Shiffrin had just finished eating lunch on Thursday in the picturesque French Alps village of Courchevel. An hour earlier, with a second-place finish in a super-G race — one day…

BEIJING — Mikaela Shiffrin’s forgettable Winter Olympics ended just short of a medal Sunday.Competing as part of the U.S. squad in the mixed parallel slalom event, Shiffrin and three…

Mikaela Shiffrin came into these Games with the goal of competing in five events. She did so, though she fell short of her larger ambitions, failing to finish three races and coming in ninth…

BEIJING — The final obstacle between Mikaela Shiffrin and a medal was the plunging slalom course called the Ice River.After two weeks of hype and heartbreak at the Winter Olympics, all the…

If ever there was a medal ripe for the taking, this is it.Mikaela Shiffrin is one of just 25 other skiers in the combined event field and one of just a handful of skiers who have the skills…

After competing for the United States in the previous two Winter Games, Gus Kenworthy is skiing for Britain in Beijing.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York TimesHe has competed in the Winter…

I first saw Mikaela Shiffrin ski when she was 14 at an Eastern championship for top junior racers culled from nine states. Shiffrin beat everyone (including my daughter) by 11 seconds in a…

BEIJING — The 1.7-mile downhill course plunges through barren brown hillsides, past haggard trees and towering gray rock faces, all transformed by a coating of snow from a storm that passed…

“Dangerous.”That was the word Mikaela Shiffrin used to describe the downhill Monday after her second training run at the Yanqing National Alpine Center.Shiffrin will ski the downhill Tuesday…

Mikaela Shiffrin will ski the downhill Tuesday for the first time at an Olympic Games, a decision that she and her coaches made after a second successful training run Monday at the Yanqing…